Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers

Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a 22-month, 52-country motorcycle odyssey in his best-selling business/adventure book, Investment Biker, which has already sold more than 200,000 copies.

Before you invest another dollar anywhere in the world (including the United States), read this book by the man Time magazine calls "the Indiana Jones of finance". Jim Rogers became a Wall Street legend when he co-founded the Quantum Fund. Investment Biker is the fascinating story of Rogers’s global motorcycle journey/investing trip.

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A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

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Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

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A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market

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Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

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The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for The Thoughtful Investor

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When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management

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The Soros Lectures at the Central European University

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Publisher's Summary

In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed "the Indiana Jones of finance" by Time magazine, proves that the best way to profit from the global situation is to see the world mile by mile.

Rogers and his fiancée, Paige Parker, began their "Millennium Adventure" on January 1, 1999, from Iceland. They traveled through 116 countries, including many where most have rarely ventured, such as Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Angola, Sudan, Congo, Colombia, and East Timor. They drove through war zones, deserts, jungles, epidemics, and blizzards. They had many narrow escapes.

They camped with nomads and camels in the Western Sahara. They ate silkworms, iguanas, snakes, termites, guinea pigs, porcupines, crocodiles, and grasshoppers.

Best of all, they saw the real world from the ground up - the only vantage point from which it can be truly understood - economically, politically, and socially.

Here are just a few of the author's conclusions:

The new commodity bull market has started.

The twenty-first century will belong to China.

A dramatic shortage of women is developing in Asia.

Pakistan is on the verge of disintegrating.

India, like many other large nations, will break into several countries.

The Euro is doomed to fail.

There are fortunes to be made in Angola.

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are a scam.

Bolivia is a comer after decades of instability, thanks to gigantic amounts of natural gas.

Adventure Capitalist is the most opinionated, sprawling, adventurous journey you're likely to take within the pages of a book - the perfect read for armchair adventurers, global investors, car enthusiasts, and anyone interested in seeing the world and understanding it as it really is.

Having just listened to this book, start to finish, I came back hoping to find the unabridged version so I could listen to it again but this time with more detail. Captivating and motivating with no BS, this book was one of a few that I have listened to recently that held my attention completely both as an experienced traveler and entreprenuer.

I was so entertained with this book that I could not stop listening until it was done. You might just want to get a map to follow along when you listen because it is truly amazing the places that Jim Rogers takes you.

Some people might not like his opinionated style, but I found it quite refreshing. His opinions on things like NGO's are a lot more on target than many of the world's policy makers, most probably because he has actually visited those countries and seen how they "really" work.

I have been trying to increase my economic savvy lately, and Jim Rogers sure added a measure of fun and interest to a sometimes mundain subject. Be sure to have your atlas handy while trying to keep up with this guy!

Jim has excellent observation and analytical skills, and is also a very eloquent narrator. The book was geared towards the most intriguing stories that he encountered in his trip. However, investing in emerging markets should not be based on anicdotes taking place in few days trips. It takes a lot longer than that to understand countries and cultures, let alone companies.

Rogers manages to take an excellent idea - taking the pulse of the world by driving around it - and botch it with his bland writing style. The work is a litany of superficial observations and bizarre predictions. His observations are completely ahistorical and totally lacking in any context.

Rogers' pallid prose is matched only by his dull reading style and voice. He is painful to listen to. This "investor" apparently could not see the wisdom of hiring a professional reader. This recording should serve as a warning to authors looking to save a few pennies by reading themselves. Some authors are good readers but they should be honest with themselves.

This was a great listen. The story and world commentary were definitely worth a read. My only complaint is that it was abridged, hence four stars instead of five. If you're listening, Audible, try to get more unabridged books...!

Jim Rogers gives an impressive view of the world - with eyeopening findings about the American way of thinking. If you feel that everything is perfectly fine for you, you need to listen to this. I myself couldn't stop until I was all the way thru it. One of the cases where a full-length version would really make sense.